Navotas Representative Toby Tiangco of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) said the coalition was “no longer obligated to include” the three candidates in its slate.

“It is clear that they have made up their minds. We need to move on,” he said in a statement.

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“We have held on to their assurances that they will join us sooner or later. Unfortunately, none of them have taken any concrete move or extended any meaningful gesture to assure us that they will live up to their commitments.”

“We would have wanted and were looking forward to having them join our nine UNA candidates in our rallies and sorties,” he said.

The party has ” tried our best to acommodate them,” said Tiangco.

He criticized one of the three who made “public statements… ruling out participation in UNA events.”

None of the three candidates has appeared in any of UNA’s campaign sorties, including its proclamation rally in Cebu.

Tiangco has likened their relationship with their then shared candidates to be “parang dalawa kayong nanliligaw, at yung nililigawan pumayag makipag-date sa dalawa.”